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Facts of Science, 

New and Ancient Knowledge. 

By BENJAMIN JUDKIXS, 

Author of many fugitive sheets. 



Astronomy, Astrology, Geology, 
U. S. Weather Bureau Investigations, 
Flaming Worlds, Flaming Swords, 
Black Age, Destiny, Mighty Changes, 
Glimpses of Eden, Transit of Plan= 
ets, Ancient Patrons, Mystery, Ep= 
itaph, Press Reports, List of Publica= 
tions. 

Olmsted Co. Print. San Diego, California, U. S. A. August, 1897. 



PREFACE. 

This little book has been published and sent out 
by subscription at the request of citizens, not merely to 
be read and cast aside, but to be considered and kept 
for reference by legislators, local rulers, leaders and 
teachers, who are true to themselves and mankind, for 
such, in case they are curious, I append my horoscope: 
fer" Benjamin Judkins, 

805 Union street, 

San Diego, 
x v > s ' California. 

Born June 20, 1846, at three o'clock in the after- 
noon, at Hackney, three miles north, north-east of fifty- 
one degrees, thirty minutes, forty-eight seconds, north 
latitude and five minutes, forty-eight seconds, west 
longitude, Greenwich; now 5 feet 10 inches high. 

For twenty years I lived in Australia the land of 
Eucalyptus, bird and tree of paradise, and fine climate. 
Two thousand five hundred miles from east to west 
and two thousand miles from north to south, the 
healthiest climate in the world. There in Australia, 
with its vast undeveloped gold and other ores, as late 
government assayor's reports show, there the astrol- 
oger will yet find the land of greater destiny for hu- 
manity than any on this planet Enquire of the author 
of this book, Benjamin Judkins, 



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^^k "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge 

Hosea 4:6. 



"Too low they bnild who build beneath the stars.' 



In 1884, at San Diego, California, I sent out this 

% query: Red-sky sunsets, what do they mean? Egyptian, 

"i Persian, Grecian, and Roman astronomers, record no 

such signs in the heavenly bodies as exist in this 

* century. 

Since then I have read the new and true chronol- 
ogy, Facts of History, by the great astronomer of the 
United States, Prof. Totten, of Milford, New Haven, 
Connecticut, who makes things very plain in his 
Joshua's Long Day. 

Only recently, in our Public Library, I saw the 
New Astronomy, with its grand pictures of sun spots, 
by S. P. Langley, Ph. D., of Allegheny Observatory, 
but most astronomers, of today, deal more with cause 
than effect. 

Funk and Wagnall's grand, new, standard diction- 
ary defines Astrology as the a^t of applying astronomy 
to human uses, and by the calculation and prediction of 
natural phenomena. This was the ancient astrononi}^, 
called natural astrology. 

Astrology, then, is the science which predicts 
eclipses of sun and moon, and judicial astrology is that 
which studies to foretel the destiny of men and empires. 
Hence, the business of astrologers (not quacks); but, as 
Prof. Totten puts it, as past masters in astronomy and 
the science of history, is to interpret the signs in the 
Heavens. 

The ignorance of the last two hundred years has 



classed astrologers with all but the wise and good; and, 
as a desire for knowledge of the science increased, the 
sage was dubbed a fortune teller, by the self-sufficient 
ignoramuses. Christ taught that "the laborer isworthy of 
his hire." Luke 10:7. Hence, if any person desires to 
be informed of such facts as will aid him or her to em- 
brace opportunities and avoid danger that must be 
passed in life's journey, they will gladly pay towards 
the cost of knowledge and expensive telescopes that 
enables the astrologer (not quacks) to cast their horo- 
scopes by a search of the heavens for and calculation 
by the stars they w 7 ere born under, in the absence of 
governmental control of the science which would put 
every one in their right place. 

Astronomers have weighed the sun and planets 
and analyzed their chemical compositions. Why not 
individuals? A portrait of Spinoza, as a character, 
showed the sun at his birth was in libra and near 
Venus, as a calm forehead, clear and sanguine features, 
are signs of sincerity. The brightest stars in the con- 
stellations are named with letters of the Greek alphabet 
and have borne the names of heroes thousands of years. 

Astrology once permeated all sciences, all religion, 
all politics, and taught that only heaven-sent rulers 
were the true saviours of the people. Prof. R. A, 
Proctor said the heavenly bodies do rule the fates of 
men and nations in the most unmistakeable manner, 
for without the sun all living creatures must perish. 

Sir R. S. Ball, in his Cause of an Ice Age, rather 
discounts the fact that the ancients consulted the stars 
for the purpose of reading, in their movements, changes 
in human affairs. Astrologers cast horoscopes for the 
career oi men at birth, statesmen sought the stars for 

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guidance in affairs of empires and decisions could only 
be safely taken on all matters, after a consultation with 
the heavens* 

If this was so, why should it not be now? Answer: 
because we have accustomed ourselves to fatten on the 
vices and ignorance of our fellows, and discriminated 
against the just; which the much dispisecl Moslems, to 
whom the western nations are indebted for the sciences, 
would scorn to do, as none will keep a saloon. 

Astrology is not opposed to religion, but rather 
supplemantary, as we may see in Genesis 15:5; Koran 
86 re. North Star. 

ASTROLOGY IN THE EAST. 

There is no Mahomedan of learning in Persia or India who is not an As- 
trologer, rare works upon that science are more valued than any other and it 
is remarkable that, on the most trivial occasions, when calculating nativities 
and foretelling events, they deem it essential to describe the planets, etc.-— 
Sir John Malcom. 

Those who may think astrology heathenish can 
find in Numbers, 24th ch. the source from which all 
churches draw their inspiration for the divinity of 
Christ, the word Jesus being sifted from the Arian 
means knowledge spreader, Physicians would better 
be able to diagnose disease and farmers have better 
crops if planted in a certain phase of the moon. 

TO ASTROLOGY. . 

"Hail! first-born of science, eldest child of good! 
That bless'd mankind the earliest from the flood: 
That taught each sage, who held superior sway 
In old Chaldea. to calculate and pray; 
That bade the sons of l£gypt to be bold. 
The truth and Nature's mantle to unfold, 
Sublime Astrology! the pride of man. 
That aids a mortal god-like truths to scan; 
Scoff 'd at by fools, who rashly thee condemn— 
Incapable of thought, thou art too high for them; 
Or basely practis'd for the love of gain, 
By other fools, who study thee in vain. 

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St. John in his vision saw a great sign in heaven, 
a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her 
feet, and upon her head a crown of 12 stars. See Rev. 
t2th ch. 1st v. 

There shall be signs in the sun, moon and stars, 
Luke 21:25. Most astronomers are agreed that in 1892 
there was more sun spot vigor than ever before which 
have given rise to fears in their minds for the safety of 
the solar system. Prof. Tolten's hope of history, page 
191 says: "The perihelia of the planets bring in their 
train solar spots and magnetic atmospheric and terrest- 
rial storms with their physical and mental consequenc- 
es." And page 197 five commensurate periods of Jupiter 
and Saturn have occurred in the past 300 years, the last 
in 1850, and timed the dreadful Irish famine* and one 
in 1797 when yellow fever was in every American port, 
and France, insane, denied all forms of GOD. And we 
will not pass out of the influence of these planets till 
1899.* 

*R~ere I wish to say, that for mnch of the suffering in faminous times, 
in Ireland, which was aggravated by the Landlords drawing- the food sup- 
plies into England. It will be safer to consult Irish history, as many histories 
have been considered corrupted tohide unpleasant facts. 

We see b\ T the light of thousands of years, 

And the knowledge of millions of men; 
The lessons they learned through blood and in tears 

Are ours for the reading, and then 
We sneer at their errors and follies and dreams, 

Their frail idols of mind and stone, 
And call ourselves wiser, forgetting, it seems, 

That the future may laugh at our own— Hostetters. 



SCIENCE AND FACTS BORNE OUT BY THE 
STATISTICS OF THE WEATHER BUREAU. 

Dr. Frank M. Close, a past president of the Ta- 
coma Academy of Science and a man well known in the 
scientific world. He said, Nov. 24, 1895. 

What are known as the "Babalonian tablets" are a 
set of inscribed plates — book leaves written thousands 
of years before the Christian era, in which is given an 
account of the Noachian deluge. These tablets were 
exhumed from the ancient city of Ninevah and are now 
in the British Museum at London. They state that 
Capricornus was the ruling sign of the zodiac at the 
time of the deluge. 

Berosus a Chaldean astronomer, wrote the history 
of Babylon, and quoted the Babylonian tablets, and he 
further declared that when the sun and planets again 
occupied the zodiacal sign Capricornus another world 
flood would happen. It is proper to here say that the 
term "flood" or "deluge" does not mean the end of the 
world, nor the total extinction of life upon the globe, 
but the subsidence or sinking of a great bcdy of land, 
such as a continent, beneath the waters of the ocean, 
as in the case of Atlantis and Lemuria. Every nation 
upon the glebe preserves the legend of such catastro- 
phies, one of which was the "flood." 

Just now the planets are rapidly approaching 
that position in which the earth will be on cue side of 
the sun and all the rest of the planets on the other, all 
ranged in nearly a straight line. To such arrangement 
the bodies of the solar system are tending. The major- 
ity are now there, the others rapidly falling into line. 

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Beginning on December 9, 1901, and until the 26th 
of that month, the sun and all the planets will be in a 
direct line; only the earth will be alone at one side of the 
sun at the end of the line, and the balance of the plan- 
ets on the other side of the sun; and the entire solar 
system, sun and planets, will occupy astronomically the 
zodiacal sign of Capricornus. 

Whether the conclusions of the Babylonian astron- 
omer prove correct remains to be seen. The fact exists 
that the planetary conditions will obtain. 

Science is not absolutely sure, but is pretty certain 
that the interior of the earth is a molten mass, fluid and 
hot. in the best possible condition to promptly obey a 
physical law: the indurated crust of the earth being., by 
comparison, but a thin eggshell. Granted, then, that 
the laws ol magnetism are correct; that the operation of 
magnetism is correctly stated and that the planets are 
magnets, terrestrial disturbances are perfectly normal 
results. The postulate rests mainly upon the determina- 
tion of the subject that the planets are magnets. Sci- 
ence is unanimous in declaring that the earth is an 
electro-magnet, made so by the current of electricity 
coming from the sun. and which in her axial revolution 
she is continually winding upon herself. We have no 
reason whatever to assume that any other member of 
the solar system differs in this respect. 

During the present year the meteorological phe- 
nomena have been extremely marked. The Weather 
Bureau reports the highest and lowest temperatures 
ever recorded as occurring in 1895. Storms of except- 
ional severity have occurred. The precipitation of rain 
and hail has been abnormal. Numerous large meteors 
have been observed, and last, the volcanic and seismic 

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disturbances have been unprecedentedly numerous and 
wide-spread. The Weather Bureau long since determ- 
ined that the meteorological phenomena of the earth 
were in some way governed b} T electric emanations from 
the sun, and in March last Professor Bigelow of the U. 
S. Weather Service publicl} r announced that "the at- 
mosphere of the earth is under the influence of the po- 
lar (electric) magnetic radiant energy from the sun." 
Today the Weather Bureau is conducting delicate in- 
vestigations to the end that the secret may be discover- 
ed. We may, therefore, read in the planetary aspect 
the causes of the terrestrial disturbances. 

As these few events out of scores from S. F. Exam- 
aniiner June 26, 1897 w ^ show. 

January 19 — Waterspout 1,000 feet high witnessed 
by sailors at Tahiti. 

June 9 — Remarkable meteor seen at Santa Fe N. M. 

June 12 — Severe earthquake in India, resulting in 
the loss of 6,000 lives. 

June 18 — Tornado sweeps over Logan county, 111. 
Cyclone wrecks two villages in France. 

June 21 — Tehauntepec, Mex., destroyed by an earth- 
quake 

June 24 — Terrific hailstorm in Kansas. 8f oz. 

Since 1897 began a famine has been raging in India 
as the result of unusual climatic conditions. It is among 
the most appalling famines of recent calamities. The 
area affected comprises about 160,000 square miles, with 
a population of 36,000,000. The area actually visited 
by famine in its severest form measures 121,000 square 
miles, and has a population of 54,000,000. 

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Within the same period an island of the Pacific dis- 
appeared beneath the sea. 

April 30 — Terrific earthquake in the West Indias. 
Lives lost and much property destroyed at Guadaloupe 

May 1 — Violent earthquake at Lima Peru. 

May 4 — Tidal wave sweeps steamer Whitesboro on 
the sands near Greenwood, Cal. 

May 6 — Windstorm causes much damage at Boise, 
Idaho. 

May 12 — Streams of lava flow from Mt. Vesuvius. 
May 13 — Island thrown up by volcanic action in Moro 
bay, near San Luis Obispo, Cal. 

May 14 — Severe earthquake in Western Nevada. 

May 17 — A cloudburst devastates Salmon valley, 
Idaho. 

March 3 — Cloudbursts and tornadoes cause great 
havoc in many Eastern States. 

March 9 — A large meteor falls at New r Benton, Ohio. 

THEORY OF A BURNING WORLD. 

Science says that during the last three hundred 
and fifty years thirteen fixed stars have disappeared in 
flames. La Place, the French astronomer, gave it as 
his opinion that they were worlds burnt up, which 
must ultimately be the fate of this earth; this theory is 
based on facts revealed by geology, w T hich attests that 
the crust of the earth is only thirty miles thick and 
heat increases one degree even' sixty feet, after the 
first one hundred feet, so that at the centre of the 
earth's interior there would be two thousand degrees of 
heat; granite melts at fourteen hundred degrees, and 
fine steel would be like liquid. This shows we walk on 
a globe filled with fire, of which volcanoes are the 

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safety valves. Some may say two-thirds of the earth is 
water, and how can water burn. Science answers: 
water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen and when 
separated will burn like powder, aided by sulphur 
gases and oil, the elements of its own destruction, it 
c . niy needs the Almighty fiat to decompose the two 
elements of water and the elements would burn with 
fervent heat, as we read in 2 Peter 3:10, till the tainted 
air was freed from the cause of wasting disease. 

Again, it is not improbable that great volcanoes in 
mid ocean, might so crack it as to let great waters into 
the eternal fire and the steam would shatter the earth 
or it might so change its axis of rotation that the North 
pole might turn over to the South pole. Hence, the 
scripture saying: Behold the LORD maketh the earth 
empty and turneth it upside down. Isaiah 24:1. 

Scandinavians have a tradition that the sun, in 
ages gone by, rose in the south, instead of the east as 
now. If some shall say: What good will it to do us to 
know all this? I answer, much every way. The 
author of New Astronomy opines the sun's heat may 
3 T et be stored in some way, by science of mechanics, to 
be used in case of an ice age, 

FOREKNOWLEDGE. 

God foreshows wh-at is to come upon men, not to gTieve them, but that 
when they know it before hand, they may by prudence make the actual ex- 
perience of what is foretold the more bearable.— Whiston's Josephus, chapter 
5. page 65. 

Again, people can be instructed to move from the 
land of volcanoes to safer latitudes. I could give many 
reasons here, but am limited to means. 

The Flaming Sword, edited by Koresh at Ninety- 
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ninth street, Chicago, 111., claims to know, by analysis, 
how to make real gold. 

The moon is said to be a cold, dead and frozen 
world of extinct volcanoes, with deep and awful cavi- 
ties, a vast ruin of nature, silent as the grave. What 
became of its inhabitants? Reader, ponder, are we 
growing cold towards each other, violating a law of life 
and so inviting our own destruction? 

Soon, as the evening shades prevail, 

The moon takes up its wondVous tale 
And nightly, to the listening earth, 
Repeats the story of its birth. 

Just now it would be interesting to know the horo- 
scope of Attila of the Huns from Mars or the scourge of 
GOD as he was named. See Encyclopaedia. 

This is taken from Raphael's Prophetic Messenger, 
of London, England, astrologer 19th century. 

"During the year 1897 the first 5,000 years of the 
Kali Yuga Cycle ends. It is the black Cycle, hard as 
iron and black as hell. The fate of mankind hangs in 
a balance. He will either gravitate down to rank ma, 
terialism, or fall a victim to gross superstition. The 
former is the most likely, as at present everyihing tends 
to mammon; gold, gluttony, and sensuality are the lead- 
ing features at the present day. Spirituality, or the 
awakening of the higher faculties and powers of man, 
is almost dormant and forgotten, and the craze of wealth 
and notoriety reigns supreme. We are told that the end 
of important cycles are generally marked with terrible 
cateclysms, or earthquakes, not only of the earth itself, 
but in the minds and passions of man, hence we may 
expect not seismic disturbances alone, but great wars, 

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immorality, unheard of crimes, and a general rebellion 
against authority. 

Just what the destiny of this earth is, remains to 
be seen, All people have longed for a heaven on it, 
but all do not work for it, as GOD, HEAVEN, JUSTICE 
and NATURE wills. That retribution and restitution 
are at hand none need doubt. R. A. Proctor, Astrono- 
mer, many years ago said about 1897 to 1899 the heat of 
the sun would be so increased as to destroy life on the 
earth. 

Some astronomers say that the giant planet Jupiter 
which is 85,000 miles across the surface has only 3 de- 
grees incline plane to its orbit which causes the sun to 
shine on it with eternal spring in which the inhabitants 
thrive at 14 feet high with eyes twice as large as ours, 
which suggests these lines: 

GLIMPSES OF EDEN. 

1*1 -some dim land of long ago 
I hear the silent waters flow 
To folds afar with bloom, I know, 
In some dim land. 

Of dreams alone is that strange laud, 
Where I in solemn silence stand, 
Hearing strange voices from the strand— 

Of dreams alone- 
Songs sweeter far than earth below, 
Like winds of heaven that come and go, 
But in some tongue we do not know- 
Songs sweeter far. 

Above our speech that spirit sings,, 
Each strange sweet word has strong swift wins 
We hear but sad sweet murmuring-s 
Above our speech. 

We may not know what in them lies— 
Glimpses of Aden's long lost skies"; 
What dreams of heaven and paradise — 

We may not know.— Bennett Bellman., 

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LINES 

Applicable to to the Reality of Astral Influ- 
ence. 
"WhBt are ages and the lapse of ti me, 
Matched against truths as lasting as sublime? 
Can length of years on God hinself exact? 
Or make that fiction which was once a fact? 
No : Marble and recording brass decay, 
And, like the graver's memory, pass away: 
The w^orks of man inherit, as is just, 
Their author's frailty and return to dust; 
But truth divine'forever Stands secure, 
Its head is guarded, as its base is sure; 
Fixed in the rolling flood of endless years. 
The pillar of the eternal plan appears. 
The raving storm and dashing wave defies, 
Built by the Architect who built the skies, 

— Cowper. 

The soul secured in her existence, smiles at the 
drawn dagger and defies its point. 

The stars may fade away.; the sun hiraselt grow 
dim with age and nature sink into years; but thou shalt 
flourish in eternal youth unhurt amid the war of ele- 
ments; the wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds— 
Catos's Solil. 

READ IN THE STARS. 

"Silent indeed those orbs roll on, 
Slient they rove the heavens upon, 

And silent track their way; — 
But if the eye doth glance along them, 
A mighty tale is read amongthem— 

Deeds of a future day." 

Review of the Transit of the Superior Peani 

Through the different signs of the Zodiac, with an account of the chief corre- 
sponding events in English history, to show that the rules laid down by 
Ptolemy, &c, as to certain sig^ns ruling, or sympathising with, certain 
countries, are Indubitably True. 

N, B. — Aries is the ascending sign of England, or 
that which chiefly influences her affairs. Libra is the 
opposite sign, and when planets are therein, they are 

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inimical to the interests of England. Aquarius rules 
the house of honor of London, and influences the laws 
and affairs of state. Gemini rules London more partic- 
ularly. Remember that Saturn and Mars are evil. Ju- 
piter good, and Herschel sometimes good and sometimes 
evil. 
year 

50 Caracticus was carried in chains to Rome, Her- 
schel was in Libra. 
426 The Romans finally quitted Britain. Herschel in 

Aries. Jupiter in Libra. 
915 The University of Cambridge founded. Herschel 

in Aquarius. 
1215 King John forced to sign Magna Charta. Jupiter 

in Aries. Saturn in Libra. 
1344 Gold first discovered in England, Herschel in 

Aries. 
1408 Disgraceful conduct of the Prince of Wales, who 
is at length sent to prison for striking a judge 
upon the bench. 
1437 English forces in France meet continual defeat. 
Joan of Arc beats them, and at length England 
loses all her possessions in France except Calais. 
1525 Henry the Eighth commences his attempt to di- 
vorce Queen Catherine. N. B. Jupiter in Aries 
last year and part of this, the effect of Saturn's 
ingress was not so mischievous. 
1643 Civil war raged furiously between Charles the 
First and the Parliament. The Excise first es- 
tablished. 
1 731 The infamous "charitable corporation" formed, 
which brought disgrace and ruin upon thousands. 
No less than six members of Parliament were ex- 
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pelled the House for ;j sordid knavery; 5 ' and many 
persons of rank and quality joined this famous 
conspiracy. 

1761 The Spaniards joined France in her war against 
England. 

1661 Great changes in the laws. Herschel in Aquirius 

1665-6 The plague and fire in London. Herschel, Sat- 
urn and Jupiter in Aquarius. 

1677 The Habeas Corpus act obtained. Herschel and 
Jupiter in Aries. 

t686 King James the Second attempt to overthrow the 
Constitution, Jefferies and other tyrants deluge 
the land with blood. Saturn in Libra. 

1688 The revolution 5th November, Jupiter in Aqua- 
rius on the 22nd Oct, Saturn still in Libra; 
which brought disgrace on the King, 

1690 Battle of the Boyne. Jupiter in Aries. 

1692 Bank of England established. Jupiter and Her- 
schel in Gemini. 

1775 War broke out with our American Colonies. Sat- 
urn in Libra. N. B. Herschel and Jupiter in 
Gemini, which rules America. The war lasted 
all the time Herschel was in the sign; 7 years. 

1780 Herschel in Gemini; which rules London. In 
May the evil planet Mars passed an opposition to 
Saturn from Gemini, while Jupiter was in Librr*> 
Dreadful riots took place in London, near 400 
lives lost. N. B. On the 2nd of June there were 
four planets in Gemini, and a new Moon fell on 
that sign in opposition to Saturn. 50,000 people 
go up to the House of Commons with a petition 
sitid great tumults broke out. 
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179? Dreadful riots in England, the mob, in possession 
of Birmingham four days, destroy Dr. Priestly's 
house, etc, This when Jupiter entered Libra, 
and was opposed to Saturn, who was in Aries. 
Goldsmith thus describes the dreadful state of the 
country: "At this period a general paralysis ap- 
peared to seize the country— the number of bank- 
ruptcies exceeded all that had ever happened in 
the most calamitous times; such was the general 
distress, that each man looked upon his neighbor 
with suspicion." This transit of Saturn through 
Aries, at length plunged this country into war 
with France. 

1796 Saturn still in Gemini. Herschel formed a square 
aspect to him from Virgo, The bank stopped 
payment. 

1798 April 20 Habeas Corpus act suspended* Mars on 
that day entered Aquarius, in square aspect to 
the sun and Jupiter, who had just left Aries. 

1829 Saturn in Leo, May. The ruling sign of France, 
Troubles Began, the changes of ministry, etc. 
At length the revolution of July, 8,000 lives lost, 
and final expulsion of the Bourbons*— Zadkiel. 

ASTROLOGERS. 
The following is a list of great men who have stud- 
ied and practised Astrology. A few reflections on their 
character may tend to show the w r eak men who abuse 
the science in trumpery newspapers how little ground 
they have for their ignorant enmity. 

Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Hipocrates, Thales, Aristotle, 
Cicero, Socrates, Galen, Claudius Ptolemy, prince of 
the science; Josephus, the Jewish historian; Polydorus 

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Virgil, Albumazer, Arabian, A. D. 844; Sir Edward 
Kelly, 1550; J. Kepler, founder of the Nestorian Astron- 
omy; Dr. John Dee, Mr. John Milton, the poet; John 
Dryden, Poet Laureate, 1631; Mr. Flamstead, first As- 
tronomer Royal, 1646; Sir Christopher Hayden, 1561; 
James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh, 1580; Lord Fran- 
cis Bacon, B. 1587; Bishop Robert Hall, B. 1597; Rev. 
John Henderson, William Lilly, B. 1602; George Digby, 
Earl of Bristol, 1612; Right Hon. William Pitt, 1759. 

Surely these men could not all have been wanting 
in sagacity, so far as not to be able to detect the fact, if 
astrology were all a dream; as those only declare who 
have never studied or examined it. 

BLACKBOARD LETTERS. 

Benjamin Judkins has created a big interest among 
people at the street corners in the evenings on great 
events at hand as read in the stars. Awful volcanoes 
now raging in the sun, equinoxes of Jupiter, the great 
planet, as a disturbing element on our earth and atmos- 
phere for some months to come, illustrating on a big 
blackboard a remarkable conjunction of Jupiter and 
Venus that came about on Feb. 6th, 1892, in the last 
signs of the Zodiac, which to them who could read 
wrote the name of Jehovah, Authority, Justice and a 
year on the sky, as described by Professor Totten in his 
wonderf ul star lecture before 3500 people in the Boston 
Music Hall, which with two important eclipses, one on 
October 20th, at sunset, marked the close of 400 years 
of American history, another November 4th, 1892, and 
the cycle now culminating in the great Mazzaroth may 
indicate that the people's cause is about to be tried in 
the courts of Heaven, and not of earth. Judkins quotes 

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the "Boston Star Gazer/' also thirty eminent men who 
endorse a book called "Forty Coming Wonlers," and 
the "Flaming Sword" of Chicago. 'Some events likely 
to happen are as follows: 

i. A big star may blaze out in Cassiopia at any mo- 
ment and thrill the whole world with profound excite- 
ment. 

2. In 1898 a big exodus of all Jews from all coun- 
tries into J erusalem. 

3. March to December 1903, world-wide preaching 
such as never known before. 

4. August 1904 to January 1906 big famine makes 
wheat ten times its present value and food very scarce 
over the fourth part of the earth. 

5. October 9 to 27, 1903, hail mingled with fire and 
b ood falls on the earth. 

6. February or April 1904 a big burning mountain 
may fall into the sea from the sky as a result of volca- 
noes in the sun. 

7. August to October 1904 third part of the sun, 
moon and stars eclipsed. 

8. January 1906, to May 1907 death over one-fourth 
of the earth by sword, hunger and pestilence. 

9. December 26, 1907, to January 1908, big earth- 
quakes in cities. Sun moon and stars unusually dark- 
ened. 

Since 1801 over 300 meteors have fallen to the earth 
weighing from 17 to 55 lbs, and one in the museum at 
Washington city nearly 2000 lbs., and one in Brit- 
ish museum about the same, and one fell on the shore 
of Greenland weighing 20 tons. See "Meteors'' in Stan- 
dard Encyclopedia.— Herald of Light, July 3, '95. 

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ASTROLOGY AND THE MILLENNIUM. 

More of Judkins' Prophecies Summarized. 

Big crowds at our street corners in the evenings 
still continue their interest in the blackboard illustra- 
tions and talks of Benjamin Judkins on great events at 
hand as read in the stars. It seems strange to some that 
a man in such poor circumstances should devote his 
time thus without fee or hope of reward, but his moral 
force, earnestness, simplicity, will-power and outspok- 
enness may account for the attention of the people, 
and from what we hear the city papers have not gained 
by ignoring his talks. This is the last summary of his 
many talks w^e will find space to print. 

Mr. Judkins says the great signs now in the heav- 
ens are as ominous as in the past ages when wise men 
and scholars watched the starry skies at night to spell 
out in the A B C of the stars the designs of GOD. The 
Zodiac was the first book of revelation to primitive man. 
Astrology with the ancients was the key of all wisdom 
in all politics, religion and law. The poet Milton spoke 
of planetary influence in human affairs. The Arabs 
from Abraham (see Gen. xy:§) viewed the symbols of 
the stars and the mighty tales they told with admiration 
and awe. R. A. Proctor, astronomer, for whom it is 
proposed to erect the largest memorial telescope in the 
world close to San Diego, said that men's minds would 
be more active at the close of this age. Napoleon first 
spoke of his star of destiny. Now Libra or blind jus- 
tice, with scales in her hands, is seldom mentioned since 
the Prince of Seers revealed them to the king of Baby- 
lon in the words MENE, MENE, TEKEL, (Daniel v: 
15). Napier, Lilly, and Tycho Brahe, a most eminent 

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astronomer in 1570 A. D., and scores of students, schol- 
ars and common people to-day believe in astrology pure 
and simple. Huyghens and Kircher were skilled in 
reading the predictions of the stars relative to the hu- 
man mind and temperament. The face was so formed 
says Aristotle, to look up to God. 

The Scientific American, June 8th, informs us that 
three of the six visible planets, beginning with blazing 
Venus, was so bunched in Gemini as to make an aw- 
fully grand figure in the sky, not seen for eternal ages. 

The New Testament revelation (xixiiy) speaks of 
an angel standing in the sun, another figure suggestive 
at this juncture of Armagaddon, to usher out the old 
aion (Greek age) so clearly shown in his Race series by 
Prof, Totten, the astronomer of New Haven, Conn. 

Some of its teachers have been cruelly martyred, 
yet astrology seeks to benefit the human race, and must 
be of divine origin, else we would not have the Bible 
record of the Magi who traced out and followed from 
distant lands so unerringly the star of Christ to his 
birthplace, and (Enpassant) the word Magi, from 
magician or wise diviner; also, astro, star; and logos, 
word, study of stars. The most beautiful dream of his- 
tory is the story of Joseph, the wise diviner of Egypt 
(see Gen. 40 to 47), by whose foresight, corn was 
stored up in the seven years of plenty and his people's 
lives and homes saved from usury and wreck in the 
seven years of famine. 

It may yet be demonstrated that pure astrology 
has predicted and can predict the destiny of men and 
empires. In the seventeenth century, in Germany and 
many other parts of the world, astrology was dominant, 
and in parts of Germany today a child's horoscope is 

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taken and put in the chest with the certificate of 
baptism. The Dead Sea of Sodom is an awful monu- 
ment of a nation's destiny, so is Babylon, Tyre, Nine- 
veh and Palestine, the latter having passed away under 
a sword-shaped star-comet and other omens which stood 
over the city for twelve months before the invasion by 
Vespasian in 70, A. D. See Josephus' history. 

Now 7 while we are on the qui vive for strange 
events, 1899 being set as an ominous year (see Prof 
Totten's forthcoming book on Daniel's vision), citizens 
have suggested that subscriptions be taken up to secure 
the opinion of the celebrated astrologer of the Boston 
"Star Gazer," to see what part San Diego, thus far a 
favored spot, will have in the millennium, so close at 
hand. With good water systems built she may be able, 
and even called on, to supply produce to famine-stricken 
lands, or store it for home use. To the wide awake the 
vision is worth the cost. But hope, which springs 
eternal in the heart, longs to leap into a golden age to 
outshine that of a far past. 

Hesiod, in his Five Ages of Man, in "Works and 
Days," says the first golden age had a distinct race who 
lived in perfect happiness on the fruits of the unfilled 
earth, did not suffer any bodily infirmity, and passed 
away in gentle sleep. Then the earth was the abode 
of the gods. The second race was degenerate and re- 
iused to worship the gods and was buried by Jove in 
the earth. The succeeding race worshipped fire, air, 
water, sky, sunset, twilight and dawn, believed thunder 
was the voice of God and lightning his hand stretched 
out against the guilty. Later, men worshipped idols of 
wood, stone, etc., when Justice w T as banished to Libra 
and Faith to Virgo among the stars. 

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Whether from tradition, or how, Egypt, in one 
stage of civilization, preserved ideas of a most glorious 
past in the superb figures sculptured in colored marble 
smd paintings on the walls of her streets. Populous 
NO, for instance, which inspired in her heroes honor 
and nobleness, and a taste for well-watered gardens, 
which taste of Eden came along with the Moors and led 
them to build the Palace at Granada, in Spain, which, 
for beauty of design in colors and splendor, has been 
the wonder of time, and in 1750 Halley, an astronomer, 
named some constellations of the southern hemisphere 
after the Phoenix, Bird of Paradise, Peacock and Noah's 
dove, as if to commemorate those days of beauty, com- 
fort and joy, in that remote past. — Herald of Light, 
August 22, '95, 

PHILOSOPHY, 

There must be want and woe 
While man is forced to be man's fiercest foe. 

The social structure needs a sounder base, 
Unjust conditions fetter half the race. 

The finer human feelings are suppressed 

And selfish maxims steel the warmest breast. 

They prosper best who play the meanest role, 
'Tis well in business not to have a soul. 

No more where Lincoln lived is manhood prized, 
Wealth wins its way where patriots are despised. 

No more on Freedom^ soil is freedom found, 
The man with money is a king uncrown edl 

For social ills society's to blame, 
One child in misery is a nation'' s shame. 

—The Vagrant. 

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IF CHRIST SHOUID COME TODAY. 



BY JAMES G. CLARK. 

I have come, and the world shall be shaken 

Like a reed, at the touch of iny rod, 
And the kingdoms of time shall awaken 

To the voice and the summons of God; 
No more through the din of the ages 

Shall warnings and chidings divine, 
From the lips of my prophets and sages, 

Be trampled like pearls before swine. 

Ye have stolen my lands and my cattle* 

Ye have kept back from labor its meed ; 
Ye have challenged its outcasts to battle, 

When they plead at yourfeet in their need; 
And when clamors of hunger grew louder, 

And the multitudes prayed to be fed, 
Ye have answered with prisons or powder, 

The cries of your brothers for bread. 

I turn from your altars and arches. 

And the mocking of steeples and domes. 
To join in the long, weary marches 

Of the ones you have robbed of their homes; 
I share in the sorrows and crosses 

Of the naked, the hungry and cold, 
And dearer to me are their losses 

Than your gains ana your idols of gold. 

I will wither the might of th? spoiler, 

I will laugh at your dungeons and locks. 
The tyrant shall yield to the toiler, 

And your judges eat grass like the ox : 
For the prayers of the poor have ascended 

To be written in lightnings on high, 
And the walls of your captives have blended 

With the bolts that must leap from the sky. 

The thrones of \-our kings shall be shattered 

And the prisoner and serf shall go free; 
I will harvest from seed that I have scattered 

On the borders of blue Galilee; 
For I come not alone, and a stranger — 

Lo! my reapers will sing through the night 
Till the stars that stood over the manger 

Shall cover the world with its light. 



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Will religious teachers step forward and explain to 
their audiences Christ's Parable of the Sower in Matt. 
13, in connection with the 8th, 9th, 10th arad 20th 
chapters of Revelation and the Sphinx, as the scenes 
are about to open. 

Many persons of variolic nations, in authority in 
other lands, from his sayings and doings, have believed 
the author of this book to be a minister of Divine 
Justice. Moral: Do not curse yourself by opposing the 
truth as many persons in the churches have done. 

ENIGMA SEEK. 

I was before man. and I am over his doom, 
And I dwell on his mind like a terrible gloom. 

In my garments the whole of creation I hold, 
And these garments no being but GOD can unfold. 

Look up to heaven I baffle your view, 
Look into the sea and your sight I undo. 

Look back to the Past — I appear like a power 
That locks up each unnumbered hour. 

Look forth to the future, my finger will steal 
Through the mists of the night and affix its dread seal. 

Ask the flower why it grows, ask the sun why it shines, 
Ask the gems of the earth why they lie in its mines, 

Ask the earth why it flies through the regions of spact,, 
And the moon why it fallows the earth in its race; 

And each object my name to your querry shall give. 
And ask you again why you happened to live. 

The world to disclose me pays terrible cost, 
Yet when I'm revealed I'm instantly lost. 
Mystery. 

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Poets and sages, now no more, 
Each had a star of hope before, 

Which marked their earthly way to fame, 
Who sang of Nature's grand unseen, 

That Wisdom's ocean had no shore. 
With star of Christ wise men came 

Guided by its light and name; 
May I not have a star the same 

To show some future prospects bright 
To comfort me along in life 

Why should I come and go alone 
Down in darkness and unknown. 

B. Judkins. 



EPITAPH. 

Here lies one who listened for the spirit of truth from GOD in 
conscience to guide him aright, yet while in life, was by some men in 
thought cast on the rubbish heaps of the world. 

Weakly, sickly persons are invited to write for circulars on the 
new discovery Vitae Ore to Theo Noel, a great geologist, 858 W. Polk 
St., Chicago, 111. 



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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. 



For Information of the public I here append a list of first-class as- 
trologers and their reliable publications as I have found them to choose 
from: 

Prognostic Star Gazer, monthly, devoted to horoscopes. Thos. A. 
Bearse, 172 Washington street, Boston, $1. A lady in the West says 
of Mr. Bearse: ''You have for the last seventeen years convinced me 
that astrology predicts correctly." 

P. Tomlinson, Box 3408, Boston. Massachusetts. 

Planets and People, monthly, $2.50 a year, grand pictures on all 
forms of knowledge, by great astrologers and alchemists, who will 
build a $200,000 Temple. Sample copy, 25 cents. Address, 169 Jack- 
son street, Chicago, 111. 

Raphael's Almanac and Weather Guide, illustrated, 20 cents. 

Pearce's Text Book on Astrology, at Public Library, grand book. 

The Flaming Sword, monthly, $1 a year. Most radical religious, 
and social scientific paper ever printed, also their new book on Science 
of Life, by Koresh, West Ninety-ninth street, Chicago, 111. 

Wonders of the Heavens, illustrated, by Flammarion, the French 
Astronomer. 

Gospel in the Stars, charming and strange, by Dr. Seiss. 

Dr. Knapp's History of Epidemics. 

Next Step in Progress, 10 cents. Limitation of Wealth, 10 cents. 
Devoted to limitation of fortunes and land to occupying ownership. 
Address, John H. Keyser, 115 Beekman street, New York City. 

Human Nature, a monthly journal, devoted to Phrenology, Physi- 
ognomy, Health, Medical and Social Reform. Prof. Allen Haddock, 
Practical Phrenologist, 1016 Market street, San Francisco, California. 
Fifty cents per year, single copies five cents, in advance. 



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